COLLEGE ADVICE: Roll With It!
COLLEGE ADVICE: Roll With It!
Hi everyone! Peter here with my very first blog. Today, I am writing in an attempt to calm the nerves some of you likely have about college. Regardless of your grade, if you think that college is in your future, it can be very intimidating thinking about leaving your home and probably getting one of your first tastes of true independence. Furthermore, there is the stress of going to college itself. You might be wondering if you will be able to make friends in a new environment, or whether you will be able to manage the new workload required of college classes. Believe me, I grappled with these questions myself. This is a big moment in your life so I will therefore give you one suggestion to face this moment as well as you possibly can.
If I have one suggestion, and this is a suggestion that you can apply to nearly every facet of your life, it is to not worry about things outside of your control. Sure, you may have a degree of control over what college you might end up at based on how much effort you put into your academics or how hard you work on your college applications. However, the day admission decisions are released, whether you receive an acceptance, or a rejection is completely out of your control. Maybe you end up not getting into your top college, or maybe you didn’t get into any of your top five colleges. That is a heartbreaking feeling. However, if you are able to accept that fact and move on, you will be able to succeed so much more. Dwelling on these matters will not improve your situation; after all, you can’t go back in time to try and get better grades or become the piano maestro you once hoped you would become. What you can do instead is to make the most of your situation and take control of the things that are still under your control. No matter where you end up, you are the person who determines how your four year undergraduate career will go. You will be able to make friends, and you will have access to amazing resources that can help you through any problems you may have.
Roll with the punches, and everything will work out fine. If you can ignore the things that are outside of your control and focus on the things that are within your control, I promise you will succeed in whatever that you want to do. Good luck everyone! You all got this.